07-23-2019, 02:53 PM
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI'S LETTER OF ABDICATION ......true it is there for all to read......
This gracious Hawaiian queen was on trial for treason. She was under house arrest.
She also stated this
"I acted on my own free will, and wish the world to know that I have asked no immunity or favor for myself, nor plead my abdication as a petition for mercy. My actions were dictated by the sole aim of doing good to my beloved country, and of alleviating the positions and pains of those who unhappily and unwisely resorted to arms to regain an independence which they thought had been unjustly wrested from them."
and she said this in her trial:
" A minority of the foreign population made my action the pretext for overthrowing the monarchy, and aided by the United States navel forces and representative, established a new government.
I owed no allegiance to the Provisional Government so established, nor to any power or to any one save the will of my people and the welfare of my country.
The wishes of my people were not consulted as to this change of government, and only those who were in practical rebellion against the Government were allowed to vote upon the question whether the Monarchy should exist or not.
This selection was anticipated and prevented by the Provisional Government, who being possessed of military and police power of the kingdom, so cramped the electoral privileges that no free expression of their will was permitted to the people who were opposed to them.
All that uphold you in this unlawful proceeding may scorn and despise my word,
but the offense of breaking or setting aside for a specific purpose the laws of your own nation and disregarding all justice, may be to them and to you the source of an unhappy and much regretted legacy.
(The court retired and returned with the decision that the objectionable passages should be stricken out. Colonel Whiting read them and ordered that they be stricken fom the record.)
This gracious Hawaiian queen was on trial for treason. She was under house arrest.
She also stated this
"I acted on my own free will, and wish the world to know that I have asked no immunity or favor for myself, nor plead my abdication as a petition for mercy. My actions were dictated by the sole aim of doing good to my beloved country, and of alleviating the positions and pains of those who unhappily and unwisely resorted to arms to regain an independence which they thought had been unjustly wrested from them."
and she said this in her trial:
" A minority of the foreign population made my action the pretext for overthrowing the monarchy, and aided by the United States navel forces and representative, established a new government.
I owed no allegiance to the Provisional Government so established, nor to any power or to any one save the will of my people and the welfare of my country.
The wishes of my people were not consulted as to this change of government, and only those who were in practical rebellion against the Government were allowed to vote upon the question whether the Monarchy should exist or not.
This selection was anticipated and prevented by the Provisional Government, who being possessed of military and police power of the kingdom, so cramped the electoral privileges that no free expression of their will was permitted to the people who were opposed to them.
All that uphold you in this unlawful proceeding may scorn and despise my word,
but the offense of breaking or setting aside for a specific purpose the laws of your own nation and disregarding all justice, may be to them and to you the source of an unhappy and much regretted legacy.
(The court retired and returned with the decision that the objectionable passages should be stricken out. Colonel Whiting read them and ordered that they be stricken fom the record.)
